‘A meeting point, almost like a village pub, where all ages come to gossip and chat. Little girls are taught how to wash by their grandmothers. I think you see something clearer when you blur it, you have to think more. Maybe you’ll hear the sounds of the chatter.’

‘The landscape here is quite extraordinary, it changes every two minutes. One moment you’re on the moon, the next in Scotland, then in South Africa. This felt like being on Mars, not a tree to be seen, and these huge mounds ever so slowly being eroded.’

‘We slept in tents the night before, and were hit by a sandstorm that whipped the canvas. The next day it was calm and I stepped outside to see this nomadic figure and the sand snaking across the desert.’

‘I was taken to this beach by helicopter and from the air the ripples of the sand look like a fish. The sand is made from silica and despite the sun it’s not at all hot to touch, which is very strange. It’s like walking on flour.’

‘I hadn’t realised the surfer was there, I just saw the shape of the waves and their colour and power. It was only when I got back that I realised I’d been buzzing a GUY. TheN, just three weeks ago, I spotted his buddy was there too, in the water.’

‘There’s something so nice and peaceful and restful about the simplicity of life here. Take the same picture in an English house and it’s full of clutter. Here are just some hooks, clothes, a needlepoint curtain and the door.’

‘This is where they filmed the recent BBC TV adaptation of War and Peace. it’s actually a replica – the original Amber Room was loaded onto trains by the Nazis and never seen again, one of World War II’s great mysteries – but I have to say they’ve done it very well.’

‘Ayers Rock is a natural wonder that everyone’s so familiar with. there were dozens of buses lined up, with hundreds of Japanese tourists all standing in one spot pointing their cameras towards it. It was quite hysterical. So I wanted to shoot it in a completely different way, to have an idea of the rock but also some of the mystery.’

‘This ballerina seemed so elegant, with an extraordinary face that was totally absorbed in what she was watching. Off stage, ballerinas chat away and text on phones. When I was taking this, the main male dancer legged it past me, obviously late, and leapt straight on to the stage.’

‘The food in Kerala is just incredible, I remember the chef onboard our boat really showing off. This was taken in the early morning, when a fisherman emerged, floating, out of the mist. A little magical moment.’

‘A nice graphic, with a sense of the precipice. You’re not sure where the horizon is, it’s a bit topsy turvy. I passed this in the car and reminded myself to make the effort to go back and get it. Sometimes you stop, sometimes you don’t.’

‘We flew our way from Adelaide, nudging up over the land. You can see how old and vast this land is: Jurassic. You create your own creatures in the patterns as you skim across, like a child looking up at the clouds.’

‘There’s the gunshot sound of cracking and suddenly the splash and the wave. It was quite an extraordinary feeling to be standing in front of this huge cathedral wall of ice, with its aquamarine glow. You even see insects inside. What the fuck is a mosquito doing inside a glacier?’